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It was understandable that followers of the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, one of world cinema's greats, would be apprehensive about his decision to work outside his homeland.

When Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi's A Separation won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2012, it was a breakthrough of sorts for his country's long-fertile national cinema.

They're about to hit the big screen as two unlikely lovers in Words And Pictures, but it looks as though the chemistry is already flowing between Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche.

Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's latest film, Like Someone in Love , once more finds the director working in a foreign country - this time, it's Japan - and is even smaller in scale than his last film, Certified Copy .

The excitement of last week -- the opening of Trance and Beyond the Pines -- gives way to slighter art house pleasures this week, but pleasures all the same.